Peter Smolka

Peter Smolka is a contemporary polish artist based in Germany and co-founder of the famous “Guldenstern” art project.

In his paintings and mixed media artworks he uses screen printing techniques, stencils, and gestural painting. Peter achieves a perfect harmony between unpredictable interaction of layers, expressiv painting and a traditional composition. The artists' own style, is unmistakable, which becomes clear not least through the basic material used. In addition to canvas and wood panels, he mostly uses shiny aluminum plates as the base material for his often large-format images. Especially this rather "cold" material develops through the artistic processing with often warm and vibrant colors, a fascinating momentum, where the viewer is very well able to trigger various emotions.

His works have already been shown in many international exhibitions in Berlin, Munich, London and Zurich, among others. Many of his works are in well-known private collections in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, England, France, Japan and the USA as well as in public institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Europalast in Brussels, Nippon Ind. in Tokyo, the Gallery Lafayette in Berlin or the Swiss Humanity Corp. in Lon...

Art studies at the Silesian University
Master student of Prof. J. Wronski (Academy of Arts Krakow)

2017-2019 4DAYSDESIGN, Katowittz (Poland)
2016 Consulate General Poland, Cologne
2015 Club Röttgen, Bonn
2000 Galerie Ignis, Cologne
1999 Galerie Tripple Z, Essen
1999 Galerie Ignis, Cologne
1999 Foyer Haus des Gastes, Bad Münstereifel
1998 Schloss Borbeck, Essen
1998 Galerie Rhenania, Cologne
1997 Galerie Schwarzkopf, Wuppertal
1996 Galerie Conen, Oberhausen
1996 Galerie Jackson Melbourne, Australia
1996 Kunstverein Oberhausen
1995 Galerie Conen, Oberhausen
1995 Galerie Studio 54, New York
1995 Galerie Hübrich, Dinslaken
1994 Kultur Centrum Strassburg, France
1994 Galerie lrene Sagan, Essen
1994 Galerie Arche, Cologne
1993 Galerie Tillmann, Gelsenkirchen
1993 Kunstverein Padeborn
1992 Galerie „Mobilis“, Freiburg, Switzerland
1991 Schloss J Hay Damay, Belgium
1990 Galerie „Ars Polena“, Düsseldorf
1989 Galerie „Alexander’', Neuss
1990 Galerie „Arche", Cologne
1989 Kunstverein Padeborn
1988 Galerie Jochen Maas, Linz
1988 Galerie „Filgräder", Vienna
1987-89 Galeria „Format“, Chorzow
1986 Galeria „Niezalezna“,Cieszyn